

The work on "Optically Rewritable Transparent Liquid Crystal Displays Enabled by Light-Driven Chiral Fluorescent Molecular Switches" has been published in Advanced Materials.The work on "Stimuli Directed Alignment of Self-Organized 1D Semiconducting Columnar Liquid Crystal Nanostructures for Organic Electronics" has been published in Progress in Materials Science.The work on "Reversible Circularly Polarized Reflection in a Self-Organized Helical Superstructure Enabled by a Visible Light-Driven Axially Chiral Molecular Switch" has been published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.Quan Li gave an invited talk at Gordon Research Conference on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors, Holderness, New Hampshire on June 20, 2019.The work on "Chirality Invertible Superstructure Mediated Active Planar Optics" has been published in Nature Communications.

The work on "Visible Light Induced Self-Organized Helical Superstructure in Orientationally Ordered Fluids" has been published in Advanced Materials.Fathy Hassan to join our group for postdoc research. The special issue "Light-Responsive Smart Soft Matter Technologies" guest edited by Quan Li, Albert Schenning and Tim Bunning has been published by Advanced Optical Materials.Quan Li elected to the European Academy of Sciences.The work on "1,2-Dithienyldicyanoethene Based Visible-Light-Driven Chiral Fluorescent Molecular Switch for Rewritable Multimodal Photonic Devices" has been published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.The work on "Stimulated Transformation of Soft Helix among Helicoidal, Heliconical and Their Inverse Helices" has been published in Science Advances.Quan Li elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.The work on "Visible Light-Driven Halogen Bond Donor Based Molecular Switches: From Reversible Unwinding to Handedness Inversion in Self-Organized Soft Helical Superstructures" has been published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.The work on "Efficient Near-Infrared Emissive Artificial Supramolecular Light-Harvesting System for Imaging in Golgi Apparatus" has been published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.The work on "Solvent Polarity Driven Helicity Inversion and Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Chiral Aggregation Induced Emission Fluorophores" has been published in Chemical Science.Our work on "Nature-Inspired Emerging Chiral Liquid Crystal Nanostructures: From Molecular Self-Assembly to DNA Mesophase and Nanocolloids" has been published in Advanced Materials.The work on "Photoprogramable Mesogenic Soft Helical Architectures: A Promising Avenue Toward Future Chiro-Optics" has been published in Advanced Materials.The work on "Fluorescent Photochromic Cyanodiarylethene Molecular Switches: An Emerging and Promising Class of Functional Diarylethene" has been published in Advanced Functional Materials.The work on "Near-Infrared Light-Driven Shape-Morphing of Programmable Anisotropic Hydrogels Enabled by MXene Nanosheets" has been published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (selected as Hot Paper).

